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Yet he had only come thither to defend himself; for three months past he had been feverishly desiring this interview, preparing his arguments and feeling confident of victory; and now although he heard his book spoken of as dangerous and culpable he did not protest, did not reply with any one of those good reasons which he had deemed so irresistible.
Wants it! How in how can I tell? That's up to you. Git here! Sure fifty-fifty!" Bean glanced up feverishly as the Countess reappeared. She was smoothing her hair and readjusting the set of the scarlet wrapper. Her own excitement was apparent. "It's all right. I think he'll come, but it was a close call. He was jes' packin' his grip f'r Wash'n'ton.
He raised it to his lap and the words of the succeeding line struck upon his brain like an electric shock: Engagement of Miss Ethel Manton and Gregory St. Ledger Soon to be Announced. Feverishly his eyes devoured the following lines of the extended heading: Time of Wedding Not Set. Will Not Take Place Immediately, 'Tis Said. Prospective Bridegroom to Sail for Europe in Spring.
But now, after a few months of inactivity, which holders of speculative securities had spoken of as another healthy breathing spell, the tendency of prices had changed. Had not merely halted, but showed a radical tendency to shrink; even to tumble feverishly.
"I am so sorry. Tell me, have you anything particular to do?" "Nothing," he answered. "I want to go out of the city into the country, at once," she told him feverishly. "The car is waiting. I ordered it for a quarter to eleven. Let us start." "Of course, if you wish it," he assented. He opened the door but before she passed through he leaned towards her. She shook her head. His heart sank.
"Cherry, will you end it?" he asked her, huskily. She gave him a startled look. "End it?" she faltered. "Will you do you think you are brave enough to give everything else up for me?" he asked. "Peter!" said Cherry, hardly above a breath. "Will you go away with me?" Peter went on, feverishly. "That's the only way, now. That's the only way now. Will you go away?" "Go away!"
It would be time enough, she said, when I was married. "If you wait for that, mother," I answered, "we shall spend the rest of our lives here." "I shall spend the rest of my life here," she would declare. "But you you have your life before you, my dear. You would be so much more contented if if you could find some nice girl. I think you live too feverishly."
Much can be done for us by you yes, you! and much will depend on the answers to the questions asked you at your trial. Give those answers as I shall bid you, and you will win a triumph for the cause of Rome!" The prisoner's eyes glittered feverishly, full of the delirium of bigotry, he caught the lean, cold hand that held the crucifix, and kissed it fervently.
For, as far as the past was concerned, it was as if a dense black curtain were drawn across his mind, and this great veil he could not thrust aside. He was cold he was stiff and sore he was hungry and feverishly thirsty, he could realise all these things, but that was all, and he lay thinking and asking himself again and again, "What does it all mean?"
It was strange to have the sound reach Lance's ears thinned and weakened by distance, while the glasses brought the injured man so close that he could see the wild look of entreaty in his eyes. Lance put up the glasses and began running, with Sorry stumbling and slipping behind him. "I been here since morning," the big cowpuncher chattered feverishly when Lance came up to him.
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